Skip to content
Docs / Concepts / Modules and areas
Your account
Concepts

Modules and areas

A module is a piece of teaching material with a page in the catalogue: a title, a lede, a text, facts, links, a state and the people who contribute to it.

Areas

The catalogue sorts modules into three areas, shown as tabs on the Modules page:

AreaIn a proposalExamples
Naturenature-basedoutdoor lessons, gardens, weather, animals
Socialsocialgroups, conflict, values, community
Technicaltechnicaltools, code, machines, measurement

A proposal may also say other; the team places it.

State

StateShown asMeaning
ideaonly an ideaa direction, not yet usable in class
developmentstill in developmentusable with care, changing
finishedfinishedstable, ready to run

A newly published module starts as still in development. Its contributors change the state on the module page.

What a module page holds

  • Title, lede and the longer text.
  • Facts: up to twelve label and value pairs, for example age group, duration, group size.
  • Links: up to eight lines of what you get, each a file or a page.
  • State, area and the date of the last update.
  • The contributors, each linked to their public page.
  • A point button and a report form.

Points and reports

Anyone signed in can give a module one point, and take it back. The count shows on the card. Anyone can report a module through the form on its page; the report goes to [email protected] and the team answers.

Contributors

A module has one or more contributors. The person whose proposal was published is the first; further contributors are added by e-mail address of an account with contributor standing. Every contributor can edit the module, see Edit a published module.

Last updated 2026-09-11